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their own Petition, " that all •former differences avntilil'have ceased, and that the House would 'have proceeded to the dis Charge of the public bit 4iness with temperance anti moderation,, ' but "when these 'Resolutions were recorded -on the -.Tolimals as the Resolutions Of the House, an'such hopes vanished at once : for it never could have `been fancied for a moment, that after resolving— That the dispatch from Lord Bathurst, communi cated by the President, did not appear to the House to contain ao.answer to the Address cif the 'Pause that it did . not appear 'hut the Address 'had ever been laid before the 'Prince , Regent=-. That the House slid not submit to the decision of his Majesty's Government the legsli'y, or ille• gality of any measures of thelleneral Court, but baring :pronounced certain 'proceedings of that Court to be a flagrant breach of 'the lawful privi lieges of the House, only called upon his Majes ty's Government to give effect to the se.tled de termination of the House—That the moderation of the House in the last Session appeared to have • been mistaken for imbecility, and had only drawn trot' Lord Bathurst unqualifed anti-unjust repre hension—That therefore the House considered the Address as altogether unanswered •; and hold ing itself in the same situation in every respect touching the matters in question, as before the Address was sent, :hat the House would resume the vindicating of its just rights by a fair And firm exercise of its own constitational au purity say, after resolutions of such a tenor, credulity alone could suppose that the differences would cease, and that the public business would be pro ceeded in with temperance. These, however, and others, all touching upon parts of Lord Batlonst's dispatch, have rot yet met the public eye. When they do, I will venture to assert that they will not be considered as undeserving very severe re flections. After the House had thus again taken np the Cudgels in despite of the proceedings of the preceding Session, which had beet' conducted upon a virtual acknowledgment that they cool() not proceed again against Mr. Wylly, humbly submitting the great danger of assuming any au thority, however reconcileable to principle, which has not some direct sanction from •the ancient Laws, or the established usages of Parliament, was it to be expected that the other authorities were to sleep on their posts, and allow the House to make out a new case for itself, and smoothing over all the roughness of the old one, pass quiet ly onwards to Victory and Triumph, without which no public business would be entered upon? Wylly had committed no new offence against the House, he had not again resisted its warrant, 'tor had he again abused and slandered it at the Bar of the General Court—his offences had been all immersed its the long recapitulation of charges transmitted to the Sovereign, and they were not deemed punishable, because the pro ceedings against bins had been considered highly objectionable. The late House had therefore no• thing to do with his haughtiness or his scurrility to their predecessors ; 'lle Members, indeed, tell you that they can produce a volume of Par liamentary cases to justify the pretension of right to prosectne for cote enlists ag,Ainst a former [louse, which has been itself prevented from proceeding by a premature dissolution ; but how happens it then that not one solitary instance was produced before the preceding Session by that Committee, whose report, I may safely say, employed all the talents of the House How happens it that not one solitary case to justify the rejection of that report appears on the minutes of the late House ; nothing beyond the brief motion, that the Hote.e do disagree to it, or some such compre hensive words ? How is it that the House be comes all 'at once so much better informed than it was in the preceding Session ? It is indeed pre tended . that the late House were proceeding against Mr. W. upon new offences, and not 'for the saute for which be had been committed ; bnt let them draw what distinction they please, they are the offences which had collectively engaged the serious deliberations of the preceding Session. It is but playing with words to say, that Mr. W. was not committed for a justifiable resistance to an illegal warrant—you have their own words that it was illegal. '' A warrant in the nature of a summons to bring him to the bar!" To such an instrument ;here could not be resistance, for if there had been any, there must first have been illegality in the service to produce it : it was then the more incumbent on the House to have ordered Mr. W. before them for a hearing, and, setting aside the very unjostifiable manner of the arrest, it was the more illegal to commit him without It is denied that Mr. W. was discharged immedi ately on the dissolution of the House: he was, it is true, at large on bail at the time that occur rence took place ; but whets he appeared before the Court on the Thursday afterwards, it was in timated from the Bench that he was considered as discharged by that event. The late Members tell yon, that but for the prorogation of the House, the difficulties of the country' would have been at an end at farthest by three o'clock of the day on which it took place, disclaiming any predetermi nation to proceed to any act of oppression or in justice towards Mr. Wylly, provided he had con ducted himselt as they had reason to expect. — Why then was the Sheriff of the Colony that day in attendance near the House in his habiliments of office ? It was no Court day, and he was no officer of the House. Under what directions then was he there ? Was Mr.-W. not to have been committed by way of making the amoide hortoea, tie, even if lie were enlarged only . five Minutes afterwards ? Was it not to have beets tried whe- . ther the Judges of the General Court would re mand him when brought tip by llabeaS Corpus, and whether the Comtnauder-in-Chief would quietly overlook the proceeding ?- Yes, all this would have been .tried, and must have taken place before the public business would have 'been en tered on. But this is not all ; there was some thing yet to have been done with regard to the proceedings of the General Court. F.lse why was the Clerk of the Crown ordered to tarnish the House with copies of the records of that Court, touchitog their bailment of Mr. W. ? But was it to be expected that a man of Mr. Wylly's temper would make his guloniisions to the House, and admit the legality of proceedings against him which had been by high authority declared to be illegal ? That the Judges of the General Court wuuld t clinquish the high ground on which they Itcyorfrtntfllie !loyal approbatlri i n rif duct, and cast contempt upon drat 'aprrohatiou tokeep't lie Assembly in temper ? 'hat the Com - mander=irdChief would conkider theßoyal instruc tions in hisilands as so much waste paper, and for• getting 'his ditty to himself and to his Sovereign, look with indifference on the measures of this House? Not the House could not, they did not expect nll this.; and they looked fora proroga tion, although it came upon them rather prema turely. 'lt is held out to the people that it is from them the Aisembly claim their rights and ptivi leges. The rights and privileges at the Assembly are noitottht those of the people; so are the pre rogatives fif the Crown, but they are to be exer• 'Cised within those limited boundaries which afford the . graatest Share of security to the subject and constituent, and best preserve its dignity without endangering the general li'ierty. The dispatch of Lord Bathurst is treated as not containing the - commands of his Royal Master; but I ain very apprehensive that cousequetices will prove it to he auth , ntir, and that the British Parliament will be applied to, to do that, for the King's service in the colony, which its Assembly will not. I cannot find in the Journals of the Assembly any stance spewing that they have not been commu nicated in the usual way, nor, except in regird to laws, that the Royal Mandate has been ac companied by a detailed attestation of time, place, and citcumstance. Had the prosperity of the Co lony, and the true interests of their constituents, been really the prime object of the late House, however dissatisfied they may have been with the Communication which had been made to Ahem, they would not again have agitated the question of Privilege on the former otlenees of Mr. Wylly, but have waited for the nix( fair occasion to as sert them. knowing, as they must have known, that in the position in which they stood, they would never be allowed to benefit by their own wrongs in the attainment of their object. Nassau, July 25, 1818. A. Z.- [To be continued ] PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. (From The Sheffield Mercury.) There is a set of political grumblers amongst us who take much pleasure in torturing themselves and pestering their neighbours with the most gloomy presages, and the most ttistful anticipa tions of the future. They can see nothinv, in the splendid successes of their country, but the germ of coming et - Amity ; every pleasing scene of ►na tional prosperity withers at the sight of these jaundiced spectators, the eternal theme of ►host: declamation and croaking is the destruction of our liberties—the ruin of our commercethe failure of our credit—and the insupportable weight of our burdens. In vain do we assert that our prosperity has increased in a gradual and pro gressive manner,—that, at present, it bids fair to continue the same course,—that our power and consequence as' a nation stands higher at the present moment than it ever did at any former, period,—that our rights and li berties stand more secure than ever, from the increased knowledge and preponderance of the people,—and that in'no period of our annals, and in no other nation in the world, was public credit _ . so well established as it is amongst its at the prese day. These are facts notorious to all, and highly -Nattering to the national character ; yet the folly of some, the spleen of others, and the malignity of a third party, object to all this, and would per suade us into the belief of our lost and undone state as a nation, which has nothing in store but ruin, disgrace, and bankruptcy ! Amongst the many topics of misery which these gentlemen love to discant on, is the necessary de cay of our trade and manufactures, from the grow ing rivalship of the neighbouring countries. IVith the decay of these great resources of our eatness, away goes all the boasted superiority of our coun try, leaving this unhappy island an isolated spot of wretchedness, weighed down by the extent of her burdens, and unable to support the over grown magnitude of her foreign possessions There are, however, certain considerations that militate against the sentiments, fears;and prog nostications of these disciples Of Stnelfungus, which, in our mind, ought to have more weight than all their ill-boding clamour. We shall pay no attention to the stories of the great manufac turing establishments that have been formed in different parts of the Continent, and which are said to threaten ruin to ours. If it is really true that such attempts have been made, and bid fair to be successful, it will only be the better for us, for the more industrious and opulent our neigh bours are, the better customers they will be to us. It is wretched policy, indeed, that would keep our neighbours poor, that we might be rich ; good sense points out the very opposite course in the relations of private trade, and the sante rule will hold in the more important intercourse of one nation with another. The con,iderations to which we allude are of a more general and abstract nature, the truth of which is confirmed by history, and is perfectly in unison with the nature of things. Thus it may he affirmed, that no nation ever continued long to cultivate trade and commerce with success, un less tl►at nation enjoyed the advantages of politi cal liberty. .Till the nations on the Continent, therefore, are on a par with us in this respect, we need be under no apprehension of their sur passing us in respect to trade. They may ex hibit a more splendid Throne, greater territory, larger armies, and more military skill ; but cons ' merce never thrives where property is not se , cure, al►tl where tier Inovements may be con trolled by the folly or caprice of a despot. The most fertile country, if the Government is not free, will have no attractions for merchants ; security of property and certainty of enjoyment being their .first rescinds, these bees often plane their honey on the barren rock. The arts and manu factures, trade n d commerce, are in separably con , netted with tre‘edom ; they arise frost► it, and can not exist in any state of vigorous vitality without it. Let a country lose its liberties, and these gra dually wither away ; let it regain its freedom, and they return as its natural concot»itants.— In a despotic Government property is pre carious, and wealth dangerous. It is not the In terest of such a Government to encourage trade, nor is it the interest - of tnet•cbt:uts to trust then 'l;c, tlitse itrelairnerS argue, who on tlie one liana a - siert dent we have - contributed to it rte chains Of•iles potkin for the continental states , , and on the other that these statts are about to deptive us of our trade and manufactures, by their superior indus try, skill, chetapness,•&c. &c. If the Holy Alliance has, as it is said by such reasoners, imposed sla very on continental Europe, we need be under no fears of our commerce, till they can contrive to do the same good tarn for us. We may test as tuned, that WI 'long as our freedom as it nation lasts, our . commerce will continue Co'flourish, in spite of the croaking deipair, 'Or the effoits of malignity. To strengthen 'this 'conviction it • may be useful to make a brief hisstorical survey of wh.:t happened at other times and in other places, when we will he sure to observe trade the inseparable companion of liberty and security. The ancient Tyrians by commerce acquired such wealth and strength as enabled them for a considerable period to tesist the whole power of the Assyrian monarchy, and, rather than submit to it at last, they quitted a fertile country and re tired to a little island, where they founded their city on a rock, and there maintained their freedom Fold preserved their commerce. The fret states of Greece enjoyed a large share of trade, which quickly abandoned them when they lost their liberty. Their colonies in Asia, in particular, continued to flourish in commerce and opu lence till they ware snbiogated, and formed a striking contrast 'with the States around -then), which were equally destitute of freedom as of trade. ' Wireti liberty began to dawn in the West of EnrOpe, trade found an asylum amouest those countries that first established their freedom, and Venice, Genoa, and Florence became the marts of the world. When Holland formed a Province of the Spanish Empire, it, was undistinguished by any thing butt the poverty and wretchedness 44 its inhabitants ; but no snout r had it tilt own otf the yoke, and acquired the blessiugs of political freedom, than commerce was seen in its trail), giving scope to the active exertions of unfettered industry and mercantile enterprise. Let us, however, view the matter in an oppo site light, and we shall, be led to the same Let us, inquire what has become of Tyre, At bens, Rhodes, Syracuse. ann Colchis, each of w hich in its day had been the metropolis of the commercial world. They are now no morf, and their places are hardly to be found. They lost their liberty, and with their liberty the arts, manufactures, and commerce, have taken their everlasting flight. An examination of the state of commercial Europe will confirm the same doctrine. Every where min we find liberty and commerce go hand in hand — supported by the same agency, amid impaired or destroyed by the same causes. And the reason is obvious enough. The merchant above air timings requires security for his property, and liberty to conduct it as he pleases. In a despotic country he can expect neither the one nor the other. And even if the Government has reached that degree of improvement as to make private property se cure (which is time case with ail the nations on the Continent of Europe), yet are they sufficiently absolute to have the power of interfering in com mercial concerns, which they often do in a partial and harassing manner, to the gm eat injury of the trading interests of the country. In countries not free, the people are divided into two great classes, the one of which is too proud and rich to engage in business ; the other is ton dependent and poor. Time is something in the very nature of an absolute government that represses the growth of that middle class of society which is so pecu liarly fitted for trade. The empty bauble of a title confers more distinction in such a country than the greatest character for mercantile inte grity; and a star or a ribbon, which may be con ferred on the most worthless minion of a Court, gives more consideration to the wearer than time possession of a fortune acquired by the arts of humble industry. The case is. different, however, in a free country, where merit finds its proper level, and where men are estimated by the for tunes they have honestly acquired, more than by any other more questionable lest. CoNINIERCR THIIREFoRE IS A PLANT WHICH WILL ONLY TliktlVE; IN TIIS SOIL OP LIBERTY. It withers and droops in any other, however foisted up by adventitious circumstances, or stimulated by the unnatural warmth of an absolute and arbitrary government. Tuesday night, at a late hour, an Excise of ficer, named Foster, was alarmed by the cry of " Help!" on that part of the Thames near the West India Docks ; on proceeding to the spot, he found it proceeded from two men who were drowning. He instantly went for assistance, which, with winch difficulty, was procured. Se veral boats put out, and one of the men, named Grossley, was taken out of the water ; he proved to he one of the sentries who were on guard . that night at the docks ; lie was.iu a senselesscondi tion, but the means recommended by the Royal Humane Society being immediately resorted to, he was soon recovered. It appeared they were assisting each other in putting a puncheon in a barge, and they both fell in the water. Soon after the body of John Davis was taken out, but all efforts to save him proved useless, he being quite dead. The body was taken to the Black Horse, ' High-street, Poplar. DREADFUL ACClDENT.—Yesterday, about one o'clock, one of the men at work on the repairs cat the Church, at the corner of Gracechurch-street , was precipitated from the top, if act literally dashed to pieces. The feelings of tile passengers passing at the moment may be better conceived Ciao de ' scribed. He was removed for the Coroner's Inquest, On Monday. the 12th inst. an In q uisition taken at the Bull lon, Beuedeo, on view of the body of Thomas Westley, a child about 6 years old, who met his death by the following sing filar and distressing accident :—lt appeared that the deceased, with some other children, had accompa : fl led a lad of the name of Couchman iu procuring acorns front some frees upon his father's grounds, and that Couchman being in one of the trees with a hope-pole, beating down the aeon's, the pole unfortunately fell from his haads, with the sharpened point upon the head of the child, - and fractured the skid' so severely as to occa,ion hi death to about an hour afterwards. The Jury a returned a verdict of " Accidental Death." TuE `l\V STREET Xcr. ''i'esferilay the Deputy High g,tii;ff of iS r e sl : miuster iittpatmeled a Jury to assess co nipeilso ti .% to t'ltintiint . wh(se premises are required utvig` the New Street Act. S. FYLER, ES'ltl. V. THE COMMISSIONEIag• Mr. Sergeal;t BEST got up to address the on the plaintiff's claim in this case, whe n lu a r ; 1. ATTORNEY-GEWEIIAL 'conferred a few m innt `, Kith hint, after which the Learned Sergeant in t ' ^ mated that he - should give nO further trouble, B. the Crown hild.conaented to make the 0 04 ' 66 4 compensation Of 20,000 2 . ten twenty-eig ht ttl‘ houses in Swallow-street,Whichstand upo n the line reknired by the •CoMmissioners. A ver dict vac accordingly taken for that Num. The Jury awarded the Nunn of 7001. to James Barber, who tept an oyster shop in _ernlyn.streeto for 'his ibte'vest a lease which expires at 51i", rhs'elmas nekt, and his hiss of business b y re" moval. The profit of lila oysters was state d to 3DOI. per year. The pro fi t, annually, on th e sale of ginger and spruce-b'eer, was et tituated a t tile, same soul. The Court adjourned to Tue s day, when' the net ion of compensation for s tbe Argyle Rocha ,. is expected to come on. We stated on TuiSday the particulars of a 01, daVing and extensive robbery on the realists 't i\b. Leftwich, a respectable tradesman, at Paradise-row, Rot herhithe. • 'Yesterday morn' jug Nlr. Left wick received a" anonymous le t , f , el ; informing him that several of the large notes wu`eui, had been stolen from hiS house became useleo the holders; in consequence of being sfoPr d b „ j c,• the Bank, and he would fi nd therii, to the ain° (/ ';. of nue hundred pounds - , either Jo the pond, o r ni " der the bridge, at Chloit-hell fields, Itothe rhithe• Mr. Left wick; accompanied by some file" ( l , e ' went to the spot described in the letter, and I - 11 middle of some stinging nettles he found a sn ta parcel covered with canvas, and tied with roP to yarn, which upon being olieued was Imud taro 100/. in Bank notes, and a watch, of ' ; l ', l t ek: he was also robbed on the same night. T he further stated, " that the gang which broke `' ` lo: and robbed his house, consisted of six men, °",,o' was their intention to have murdered e ver y, r son front whom they experienced resiitrittee. • a ti 'A curious charge was hi ought to St. Al a ( WsitCh-house, on Sunday evening : A fine Y a t i o, fellow, with nothing on but his small-clo"loc. was charged by a tradesman in I\leard's-ot, with being found under his bed. It turne d er e upon inquiry, that the accused was !W I his with intent to commit felony, but to PaY ini a respects to the tradesman's wile. The Um", td left home on Sunday, with an intention I ' o pe return until Monday morning, but unluckily his frail rib, he returned the same night' door observed a light in her bed.cltamher, I:m( 1111 % 0 10 . was locked, which was very unusual. All e c . " r pL time he was admitted, bi.t the wife ha / toe d ' the candle out his suspicious were lO';',:0 1 ,° . and on making a search he found a rival un:',;( dint • bed. The wife confessed on her knees " fr ll w hid biro under the bed to avoid detee 6oll ; o lro ir ' constable could not take cognizance of th`icop and the accused escaped with a severe b° ~ On Tuesday afternoon, as a ligbter6l°rch ° l t I conveying two barges through the centr e cl ; • Blackfriar's-bridge, on running along t h , 0 00 one of them, his toot slipped, and he was (1( 4/101011,11.0D e 1 AIAILKET, OCTOBER 2 1 . & l e' 4 61 1 ' Ships at Market. Ships sold. , to 40* 9} Newcastle 1 'Sunderland c. 1 CAMidi 0 Yesterflry, at hus leer hoe, B i l t i t " H lT 0 ;rtford-strcett •--e he late S. lt. Gausseti, Esq. of a son. , 0-1( 1° On the ?nth inst. at Ma iS ry i l k le rt - i h t u l t E •t p . Church, Jos e P li IW43l ft 6 i . Esq. to Elizabeth Galton, widow ' 'll ' sl. fi Yeste7alay, at Newington Church, Cha rles JA - U :loci' Symons, EA. of Cornwall. ft : i t -I : 1 11:s ' s N e t' a: ' , l ::i . :n i s a , 11 ;0 ' t:e n i:: rjs !i eldestuf . 41 .tit:P li ' e tce : '1 :1. ' - Essex, George Gyiit, Esq. j i ) n iE tl r i ) e . 93 lll Yea r ': n: "'I" ' 4 ag : t [: 1. 1. 1 ) i r l i :A c t dr Crown, w o i f l :i u O p y o r l it i )'ears her a N l). l ,. : i g i i a s:i c - a f t r e ,..;, f f : r , s., t;ll:::,tveiri a t i o it t yr i . i, 0. el tt ' s . On the 17th inst. at Milford, Clptaiii Isaac Wils°.,i,,lol 3 oef raucan. Lu A ci t • . t fourth daughter of the late George Clark, f'"' or !'iris,. of a decline, on her way to the 5011th Of r o r t . %W I Hatch, Essex. .11 5iiille On the i !tit inst. at Gat tenburgh, after a 01 0 ° t Mr. John Nutt, nirechant. doer of (' Yesterolay, at Hackney, Ellen, Younge" dttufi lio. - Edward Langinore, Basingliall-street, aged 9 10°'41 , PROVINCIAL BIRTHS, MARIIIAGE.St os Richard ()n the it, Bll l,, i , r i i i s d t ~ E'.q.;tt. F o e r f 11: 3 , o i t t i i 1 4 . i f i g l i 5 1 o:t i t: r e . , _,.1, O r At Lime, Dorsetshire, the Lady of Flardfug C ol° his Majesty's Advocate in Ceylon, of a soil,. tro ot• At Whitworth, Ireland, the Lady of Icu r st'i lod Tower, of a daughter. he iAdi ° • At Drialartien Castle, county Dublin, l gy p! L. Giffard, Esq. of a sou. f nel, 0 Lately, the Lady of the Governor of :elder 1:4131°11° Inland, otbieff:ii 0 ;IA it ati En. ~fr. jaffie- .. a s On the 18th inst. at Nlalpas, Clitshire, +. _ ~.0. A g o, . of Liverpool, to Miss Ehzalioli Nlofte, ot :‘P't.',r s t ow .. On the Litli inst. at Maidstone, .li.. o° , r l§ o * 'Miss Charlotte Lewis. tha t 0 Same day, at Aldingtott. Mr. Jaates 'ratty J O4 to s N ,, l i i i s , e i S d at a r y a , l ,, i INls.ati.,Nblaitild,i,..fa...\,lctithils,sreritlr:,:;_j_e.erbciotryi., Igr'esor Dointilain, to Miss Mary Sharii, both of [ t hat jall: 10 0. F, day last, at Uranftrook, Mr. Antos :1 0 . `, 14,01i 0 Leeper, of Crafibrook to Ilia Crittentic 3, ' , ' --......020 1 •" -- r IP , N e r jo Dir..v• .„ „fot ba h al o ' P j° On Sunday even . ' to- Mr. George Bet, ~r jor. ~, ..ii "" ' oe sr On Thursday last, at Sellingei l' - --t ' 44 0 0° ' f 1 tit that place. , ou t hi) ve oli the. Ho inst. at Little Bounds, \otioti'. dstig Te"l",-..c, Mt s. Wilithorp, wife o f 1)r• . . 004 ..0 t MI" 0 0° Oa the Ittrh inst. at Lympue, Ren•t • . 1 , 0 0 of Mr. Francis Breton. fo C l ' 4l Ott the 6th inst. Jolt Edwards, L 9 q* c, ef tf o r i ' theslin c. . . of c',lie,tevr;ate,-boiS ..-p Last week, 'Mr. Thomas Edwards, ...,,, ~,,ci r p o tik t ot Ott at tinily la , t, Mrs. Faull.:oc,r, ot . LA ~ ,f tb .. e or o f ''' Ott the loth inst. at Stowe, the st a a iii, sco • Buckingham, the Bev. William. 1 ,31° ___..•---" Cl lv .r. 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